Paul W.S. Anderson Realizes Too Late What Is Missing From �Death Race�

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"But there are aspects to the first movie that we haven't really addressed in this movie. For example, in the first movie, you run people down for points. In this movie, certainly lots of people get run down, you just don't score points. If we did do another movie, I would like to address that." �Paul W.S. Anderson on what we can expect in a Death Race sequel [MTV]

"I was such a huge Six Feet Under fan � I mean, my cellphone ring was the theme song, so I had to change it when I got cast in the pilot because how embarrassing would that be!" �Julie Benz on working with Michael C. Hall in Dexter [Pop Wrap/NYP]

"I'm gonna be 24 this year. It's a progressive age, 24. I was finding myself and finding out the things that needed to be done as far as my career, what needed to be done. Certain moves. I feel like now I'm in a really great place. Cutting my hair, I feel like I'm going to another level. Cutting my hair was a step for me." �Omarion [MTV]

"If this record flops, I'll probably go back to school. I've always liked architecture." �Lily Allen [Paper via PR-Inside]

"I sleep well at night. I'm doing this so I don't have to get a proper job. I just hope I don't get found out." �Kevin Smith [Guardian]

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'Conan' unsheathed at Lionsgate

Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain to write new script





Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain are trying to corner the market on sword-swinging fantasy adventures.

The pair hold been hired to write a new script for "Conan," as in the barbarian, for Lionsgate. And the writing team's action-adventure screenplay "Amazon," an epical about female warriors to which Scarlett Johansson has been attached, is navigation out of turnaround toward Lionsgate as well, with Neal Moritz and his Original Film banner advent on to produce erstwhile the apportion is completed.

Director searches ar under way for both.

Paradox Entertainment president of the United States and CEO Fredrik Malmberg is producing the "Conan" feature along with Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and Avi Lerner of Millennium Films. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer ("Sahara") have already been functional on a separate, parallel script for the photographic film, a electric potential resurrection of the greco-Roman warrior created by Robert E. Howard in stacks of pulp stories published in the 1930s. In 1982, Oliver Stone and John Milius wrote a bloody version, which Milius also directed, that asterisked Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"We all want this motion-picture show to go into output as before long as possible," Malmberg aforesaid. "It's a fast-tracked picture. Lionsgate matte up the process was enhanced by having a second team get in and do a script."

Much like with "Batman Begins," the studio hopes to redraw the Conan feature universe to raise a modern, post-millennial franchise. So rather than remaking the Schwarzenegger bloodfest, the writers have gone back to Howard's original stories to create a $100 million R-rated origin movie, the largest production to date for Lionsgate and Millennium.

"Fans expect (these types of movies) to be more true to the source material," Malmberg said. "There's no reason thither couldn't be a Conan movie every two long time. He's nearly like Batman: He's a dark hero. He's a hard hero. He has to be badass, merely we besides have to like him."

Blackman and McCain, repped by ICM and Circle of Confusion, latterly co-wrote the science fiction actioner "Outlander," which McCain also directed. It screens Friday at the Locarno film festival. They too are credited writers on "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans," due out next year.


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The Sum of All Fears

The biggest mystery in The Sum of All Fears is not how terrorists handle to smuggle a nuclear bomb into downtown Baltimore. Rather, it's how CIA operative Jack Ryan, formerly played by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford, has suddenly become 30 long time younger and has turned into a junior broker at the CIA with only a few months of live. In the hands of Ben Affleck, Ryan is no thirster the overlooking veteran he once was in films like Patriot Games. Now he's little more than a arrhythmic teenager with a hot girlfriend and a chip shot on his shoulder.


I won't try to explain the metamorphosis of Ryan because it's never mentioned in the moving-picture show (and no, it's non a prequel; the film takes

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Ashlee flashed Pete on first date

Ashlee Simpson “flashed” Pete Wentz the first time they hung out together.

The couple - who are reportedly getting married on Saturday - also revealed that they were “friends with benefits” for a long time before getting together in 2006.

Pete said: "The first time we really hung out she flashed me." Ashlee added to Us Weekly magazine: “I lifted my dress over my head but it was love at first sight.”

The Fall Out Boy rocker also revealed Ashlee couldn’t remember him after they first met so he had to email a photograph to her.

He added: "I was in the 'friend zone' with her for a good solid year. I'd be calling her and following her around like a puppy dog."

The couple announced their engagement in April and are reportedly marrying this weekend at a “top secret” location.

A source said: “Proper invites have not been sent out but guests have been given a save the date notice."

It is rumoured that Ashlee is pregnant and the couple want to make it down the aisle before the baby is born.





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Ladytron reschedule London gig after soundsystem blows

Ladytron have announced details of their re-scheduled gig at the London Astoria[/a], after the initial gig was cancelled halfway thorugh after the soundsystem blew.

Last Thursday (May 15) the show was brought to an abrupt end when the PA failed, prompting singer [b]Helen Marnie to announce to the crowd that the gig would be rescheduled and original tickets would be valid.

The band have since announced that the new date will be on July 16.

Between now and the rescheduled date the band will release their new album, 'Velocifero', on June 2.